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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

by the top artistic and commercial photographers of the day, with a focus on advertising and industrial images. Bubbles, Panics & Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s In 1837, 1873, 1907, and 1929, asset View Details
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

Imagine a retail chain that offers customers not only the lowest prices but also personalized customer service. Employees receive above-average wages and 20 times more training than the average American retailer. Sounds like a recipe for... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Impact Stories - Business & Environment

resilient, and consumer-centric through the application of data science and behavioral economics, optimizing the system assets and operations across the electric meter.” Natalie Deschamps MBA 2015 | A Fundamental Foundation "I ultimately... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

billion in assets under management. How did you first become interested in investing? My father had spent time in the Argentine and followed the price of Indian tea shares. As a young boy, it was romantic... View Details
Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

borrowers likely involve fewer monitoring tools and weaker control rights. We evaluate these explanations of cov-lite contract provisions in a large sample of U.S. loans for the 2001–2014 period. Consistent with creditor-driven explanations for cov-lite issuance, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

integrated-markets models in which the rationally determined price of risk fluctuates in a countercyclical fashion. The results can be partially explained by models in which shocks to intermediary capital or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

Falato, Antonio, and David Scharfstein Abstract—We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

pricing for first-exposure products on the site. Many in the industry have relied on years of experience and intuition to determine pricing—can Wilson provide new insights? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

Harris, of Playing2Win Technology can also be used to bridge the asset gap and drive down the cost of programs designed to help low-income families, said HBS professor Peter Tufano (HBS MBA '84), who teaches financial management. Tufano... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

short-term oriented investor base. Moreover, we find that short-term oriented firms have higher stock price volatility, and that this effect is mitigated for firms with more long-term investors. We also find that short-term oriented firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

PE-backed firms generally have higher earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management, and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

for download. Fair (and Not So Fair) Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

premia, real interest rates and inflation. The variation in investment opportunities is captured by a flexible vector autoregressive parameterization, which readily accommodates a large number of assets and state variables. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

rerouting through intermediary countries, pointing to an increase in imports from China and a corresponding rise in exports to the United States since 2018 in countries like Vietnam and Mexico as evidence. Due to these concerns, some... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

depending on the characteristics of the applications market. Second, giving open access to one side in a proprietary platform may lead to fewer users and developers and to lower investment, relative to a platform with closed access to both sides. Third, the structure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

it creates a legally independent project company and finances that company with nonrecourse debt (i.e., the debt must be repaid by cash flows from the project company only.) The relevant question is: Why would a firm choose to finance its View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

the investor's and the investee's countries, affects the asset allocation decisions of global mutual funds. We find that investors tend to underweight investees with greater accounting distance. Using the mandatory adoption of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

supply chain system. When commodity prices became more volatile in 2007 and 2008, executives at Domino's changed the way they worked with suppliers and franchisees to manage costs and risks and better leverage the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25120&i=25122&cs=0b17ff7f3d16c64e4a6b72b71b876054 2013 pub Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes? By: Ashraf, Nava, B. Kelsey Jack, and Emir Kamenica Abstract—Does providing... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino